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It's a testament to the quality of Killer Mike's R.A.P. Music that I've owned it for over a year on vinyl and, until today, have never tossed on the instrumental version. Mike's verses on the album are so dense, well-done and generally engaging that I missed a ton of subtle production work that El-P did throughout the album. The instrumental is its own beast, nearly a different album with all of the nuance and craft on it. My dad, who hates rap, walked into my room and asked what I had on. When I told him what it was he said, "Well, this might be the first rappy thing I put on my iPod."

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I never really thought of it this way before, but while trying to convince Greghead that Tom Waits is an artist he'd love, I realized that Rain Dogs is his White Album, a record with tons of stylistic shifts and experimentation that ties together because of, rather than in spite of, its flaws. I can think of no other album that includes sea shanties, dark bar songs, blues rambles, near-no wave blasts of ugly and songs that Bruce Springsteen covered.

It's like dusting off the sounds I put away yet never get sick of, much like how people love their fucking pumpkin spice lattes or whatever. Whatever. It's nostalgic and I like it while I wear a sweater and make ratatouille and drink moonshine.

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I posted about Roy Harper in the 50 Overlooked Albums Per Decade thread, but with the release of his first album in 13 years (it's excellent, find it) I've been inspired to go back and listen to his catalog again. His wikipedia taught me some interesting things:

You ever wanted to hear David Gilmour and John Paul Jones play on the same song in their heyday?

How about a backing band consisting of Keith Moon on drums, Jimmy Page on guitar and Ronnie Lane of the Faces on bass?

He was on such a roll in the 70s that he could use Paul and Linda McCartney for backing vocals

He also has two albums he cowrote with Jimmy Page and one album cowritten with David Gilmour. And he can always go toe to toe with these guys.

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When I was super young and getting into Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, an older friend of mine suggest I listen to Stormcock. So damn good. I always wondered why, at least that album, doesn't get as much as recognition as Dylan's and LC's stuff.

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Originally Posted by bmack86

I posted about Roy Harper in the 50 Overlooked Albums Per Decade thread, but with the release of his first album in 13 years (it's excellent, find it) I've been inspired to go back and listen to his catalog again. His wikipedia taught me some interesting things:

How about a backing band consisting of Keith Moon on drums, Jimmy Page on guitar and Ronnie Lane of the Faces on bass?

I just downloaded this one a few days ago and will be digging into it today; can't wait!

Originally Posted by roberto73

I'd contribute to this discussion but I'm still busy reminiscing about the halcyon days of punk. You know, the mid-90s.

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I CANNOT FUCKING WAIT TO SEE TOM WAITS

this is the only song Guedita likes from Tom waits and out of Nick Cave, Tom Waits,and im missing someone else from what she calls "white male entitled music" that I always listen to. I want to say Serge Gainsburg but its someone else Im pretty damn sure.

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I'm putting together a playlist for an island-themed Halloween party and I'm enjoying listening to exotica and other related music much more than I thought I would.

So far I've been listening to Ultra Lounges Mondo Exotica and Tiki sampler cmpilations, which have a lot of fun stuff but are honestly a little off the mark for what at least i would call straight up tiki music. I'm also listening to The Sound Of Tiki, curated by Sven A. Kirsten (who has authored several definitive tiki style books), which is fucking awesome.

And probably the strangest thing I've listened to so far is a calypso record by the actor Robert Mitchum from 1957 called Calypso Like So, which is surprisingly very entertaining, despite the absurd fake island accent he takes on

I have a lot more queued up, including all 3 volumes of Martin Denny's Exotica, A record from Arthur Lyman, a Polish Polynesian/Hawaiian album called Księżyc na Tahiti , and a two-disc compilation called Discover Jungle Shadows, put together by the guy who runs the Flash Strap blog. For good measure I have got my hands on Don Ho's Tiny Bubbles and Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii OST, as well as a number of surf guitar compilations.